Example sentences of "[adv] as [adj] as [adj] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was important , bearing in mind private viewing , that bodies should be not only as wholesome as possible but also as well dressed ; and dressed not only in a material according to social status but also in as well upholstered a coffin as funds would permit . |
| 2 | They were not very old , perhaps as young as four or five . |
| 3 | However , the position is not as simple as this because , if the merger had taken place , rationalisation and restructuring would have happened anyway and it is likely that certain plants in any combined GM/Leyland group would have closed . |
| 4 | It was not as easy as that because , when he put his head forward , he saw in the mirror that he was still lifting his chest and arching his back . |
| 5 | It was room 48. 48 was a good number ; not as good as 32 or 64 , but better than , say , 49 , and much better than 47 ( though that was interesting too because it was a prime ) . |
| 6 | He wrote it to his friend , Charles Diodati and it 's an answer , in Latin verse , to a letter from Diodati apologizing that his poems were not as good as usual because he was leading too much social life . |
| 7 | Indian wool , although not as good as Persian or Anatolian , is generally better than that found in Pakistan , and in the finer quality items superior Australian and New Zealand wool is often used . |
| 8 | Academic register is formal , but not as formal as legal or religious language , with their archaic vocabularies ; again the underlying idea that your writing should be clear means that your style can not be too obscure . |
| 9 | I can be just as nasty as friendly if I must , but it is not often necessary . ’ |
| 10 | The polar habitats we see today are likely to be just as transitory as those that preceded them . |
| 11 | Just as bad as open or closed . |
| 12 | The changes with time are just as important as those that occur during spatial patterning and are indeed part of the process . |
| 13 | The path on is across slopes just as steep as these and , in the wet especially , the exposure may be too much for some . |
| 14 | This family is characterised externally by thickened skin covering the disk and arms which conceals the reduced or fragmented plates of scales ; rudimentary and inconspicuous radial shields ; the jaws usually as broad as long or longer than broad armed with simple spine-like or broad scale-like rugose papillae ; the second oral tentacle pore may arise within the mouth slit as in Ophiomyxa , or more superficially and nearly outside the mouth slip as in Ophioscolex and Ophiophrixus ; oral area usually covered with skin which may obscure the underlying plates ; the arm spines erect laterally placed , covered with thickened skin . |
| 15 | He was like as close as that and he was really staring and he was n't staring at the road cos as I went on a few feet he stared at the car again . |
| 16 | In subsequent elections its percentage of second votes , once as low as 5.8 and never higher than 12.8 , has ensured its continuous representation in the Bundestag . |
| 17 | There was her grandmother , solid and real , who could offer her stories nearly as miraculous as those that Fenna told her and which would have the miraculous ponderousness of fact . |
| 18 | Hence , buffers should be both as large as possible and related in size to index record size . |
| 19 | All the difference in the world between somewhere as spacious as this and a crowded tube carriage . |
| 20 | The cloth is then wrung out as dry as possible and the deposited water recovered while it is still hot . |
| 21 | That , that , that is high , but then again is very high the activist we do n't , on the courses , we do n't see many activists coming out as high as fifteen or sixteen , they are . |
| 22 | Mesh sizes were often as small as 1¾ or 1½ inches ( about 4 – 6 centimetres ) from knot to knot — poachers ' nets indeed , for nothing worthwhile could pass through . |
| 23 | Unlike genuine lagers , which usually have alcoholic strengths of 4 per cent and upwards , the average British lager is often as weak as mild or standard bitter but is priced from 10 to 20 pence a pint more . |
| 24 | Having decided on all the advantages of cleanability , cookability and controllability your choice is now as simple as black or white . |
| 25 | He looked , he said , ‘ like a great boiled egg ’ — the once extraordinarily handsome young man was now as bald as one and the day that Ken called had left off his toupee . |
| 26 | She said it was n't as good as good as they thought it was gon na be , everyone told me it was brilliant . |
| 27 | Opportunities for interaction with an adult will of necessity be reduced but , when they do occur , one would hope that , with the benefit of professional training , teachers would ensure these opportunities were at least as enabling as those that occur at home . |
| 28 | Is this not a form of stereotyping at least as damaging as racist and sexist attitudes ? |
| 29 | Yet Uruguayan stations achieved a diversity almost as great as that as Argentina , from the tin shack at Pan de Azúcar to the heavy , unrelieved , square strength of Paysandú , from the elegant classical Salto to the delightful single-platform country station at Paso de los Toros . |
| 30 | It is really in my mind almost a repeat of the situation we found ourselves in , in the Sudbury Western bypass some year or two ago , which strayed into Essex onto which the Essex County Council raised objection , er , one can not build a road in an adjoining County without the consent in law of the County Highway Authority on whose ground you trespass , it 's almost as simple as that and in this case with Norfolk standing presumably indicating their intention to oppose the construction for a day , we have something of a static bar situation unless we can reach agreement . |